The Journal of Antique Archaeology & Mike Wolfe

Gather Around the Table: Thanksgiving with the Wolfes

This Thanksgiving, as we run to catch flights and pile into cars bound for our little corners of the country, the only thing getting us through TSA security checks and mile after mile of endless highway is all the home-cooked food that awaits us.

Prepared by the hands of loved ones, we wait all year to chow down on all that good food, while we catch up with family and give thanks.

With so many plates being passed around the table this Thanksgiving, you’ll want to be sure that Jodi’s favorite pumpkin pie is one of them! Free of dairy and guilt, this dessert won’t weigh you down. That’s what the stuffing and green bean casserole is for. (Just in case you still need another side dish for your meal, check out Jodi’s roasted roots!)

She has been doing some dry runs in her Tennessee kitchen this week, and thought you might want to do a few practice pies before the big day. Ready to get baking’?

Roll up your sleeves, preheat the oven to 375 degrees, and gather the following ingredients:

Jodi’s Favorite Pumpkin Pie

1/2 cup coconut palm sugar

1tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp sea salt

1/2 tsp ground ginger

1/4 tsp ground cloves

2 large eggs

1 can pure pumpkin

1 can coconut milk

1 9 inch pie shell

Preheat 375 degrees

Combine all filling ingredients in a bowl and puree with hand mixer.

Pour filling into pie crust and bake for 40-50 minutes.

Stick a toothpick in the middle. If it comes out clean, the pie is perfect.

Cool on wire rack for 2 hours. Top with whipped cream and serve immediately.

Mike you have a beautiful family. I often watch and enjoy your TV program. I enjoy listening to the conversations you and Frank have in your van while going from place to place. I can tell both of you enjoy what you do and that is very important and especial in life.
Keep bringing clean TV programming to us, we really enjoy it.

Mike,
I just wanted to let you know that i love your show and i really enjoy watching your show and i do learn alot from watching your show what i love about your show is yours and franks honesty with people you buying from and you all ROCK,
Thank you,
Edward.

I have a question about a statement Mike keeps making regarding stocking “my store “. He doesn’t refer to it as our store, always my store. Is Frank a partner, friend, buying for his business or what’s the deal?

Antique Archaeology has been Mike’s business for the last 15 years. Both LeClaire and Nashville shops are stocked by him, while Frank has a place in Illinois. He and Frank are pickin buddies with seperate collections. Hope that clears the air, Mike!

I think you guys do a good thing taking history from being lost i myself have wondered what some of the old things I got are worth makes me want to do research to find the history behind it and I think it would be pretty cool to go on a pick and find some cool 18th century stuff that’s been around and if it could talk it would tell stories that would blow your mind just keep up the good work guys I watch your show as much as I can take it easy guys

My husband and I are watching this Sunday night. Watching the episode with Prince Mongo in Memphis. Just love the exchange between you. We’d love to know what is going on with him presently. Did he sell the buildings? More money for St. Jude’s? Carry on Keep up the good work.

Is there a special website that you have that people can buy stuff from your stores for home Decore? And if so do you take offers on items? Thanks for your time I’ll look forward to hearing from you! Hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday!
Gregg Payne
Indianapolis Indiana

Hi Gregg! There is not. While we do sell some lights and vintage movie posters on our website, we don’t sell the antiques. That’s because they sell out too quickly for us that by the time we put them online, they’re gone. Best thing to do is just come visit us in person and see what you like! Here are the movie posters: http://www.antiquearchaeology.com/prodlist.php?cat=42

I love the show Mike you have a beautiful family me and my son’s watch the show together me and my friend used to pick i still do when I can but I’m a heart patient so I spend a lot of time with my two boys I have 5 kids all together 3 year older and my two younger boys I got six grandkids so being a heart patient I just take it easy do a little picking here and there mostly Automotive I do still drive a tow truck and I collect riding mowers then I have a few old trucks have been messing with I just want to say Merry Christmas to you and your family and to Frank and Danielle Happy New Years to all of you if you ever come to Indianapolis Indiana I would love to meet you guys and gals and I like old bicycles I have very many of those

Hi to all , love the show , watch it all the time at home here in the UK . Have been to the U.S. a few times including Memphis being a music fan hopefully get to Nashville eventually and visit the store. In the meantime I’d love to buy one of your cool t shirts do you post to the uk , best wishes andy

Hi Mike love the shows u do some amazing finds and places you go to I would love your job lol iv just started to collect well iv aways had old things I love stuff what was made to last. I would love to visit your store some day. I hope you keep up with the shows I really love watching them best on TV haha. Hope u and your family take care

Just to tell you we never miss your show .We live in Scotland, and you are on three different channels over here ,just discovered your show a couple of months ago and seem to have been watching it non stop since.

You have a beautiful family and your wife is very talented and artistic and your wee girl is so bonny Keep picking so we can keep watching. Love the patter between you and Frank and Danny Dee is just brilliant too

As other’s, I love your show. My Mom gave me the bug to go garage “sailing” year’s ago. We use to go together and have lunch afterwards. She’s gone now but she studied books upon books to zero in on the good stuff! I watch you and Frank on the road and it reminds me of the old times with Mom. I want to thank you for a great show. Reality TV is not my bag. Seeing you and Frank with your little flashlights rummaging through someone’s stuff is a ball. It’s great TV! I had a stroke two years ago and haven’t been “sailing” for the past two years. I miss it so. Watching you and Frank go on the road to find those treasures makes me feel like I’m with you. Merry Christmas to all of you! Keep up the good work! You have a beautiful family!

I have download 12 years of your program and recently ordered season 13. I watch them over and over enjoying the each time, just been a couple of characters that I fat forward through. Keep on doing what you do for so many of wish we could do. Love you all and what a wonderful cast. Family and friends you have given us.

This Aussie wishes Mike and Jodi, and the rest of the extended “pickers” family a very joyous and happy Christmas. I’ve had the pleasure to visit both the LeClaire & Nashville stores, and been made to feel very welcome (particularly in lovely LeClaire). Just never forget that those many hours spent away from your family are appreciated by many of us- and I hope that you realise that you are respected and admired by many.

Hi Mike , love to watch the show here in the UK I feel I have learned so much about American history, looking forward to a better 2017 . I wish you and your family a safe and better New Year, Kind Regards Peter Holland in a cold Nottinghamshire

Love the show for years here in Bullitsville Kentucky…. Rumours abound of you coming here in spring of 2017. Wish i had some leads for you but the only oldstuff I have I am 1. Not selling 2. Not advertising I have it

First of all, my wife and I love the show! Since we first got together back in 2008 we spend the majority of our vacation time antiquing. But I do have a question, with Frank living in Iowa and you (Mike) in Tennessee, how do you both manage to have enough time together to “Pick” and still maintain your personal lives? This can’t be easy.

6 weeks first time i started 2,3, weeks ago nothing but Tshirts i got pist i was trying to buy the Dentist air compressor, the man had been a truck driver,but had a stroke his son was very happy that ya’ll were there buying thing, i have seen all the shows, where’s everything, you guys Mike, Danny D, an Frank,OK i can’t take it anymore ya’ll, Ok who takes care of sales i have not heard from anyone, guys an gals i get it, i am not bitching, constructive criticism, i was raised in a business,an I have owned my own business thank you GOD i am 60 and done And yes dealing with the general public, i would hope you would tell me , i know I’m not the smartest pumpkin in the patch but, Tshirts that it 3 times i could not find nothing i’m on Google. OK Frank i’m in east Tx, the chiggers are terrible.ya’ll get you a bottle of bleach and a sponge run you a tub of water put1/3 cup of bleach in the tub lay down to get covered start scratching every place that itch’s get under the water scratching again 3 or 4 times then rinse off you done. OK Baby-Girl i heard you say that you liked a big boys i’m a pretty good chunk i have been a Ruff neck all my life. was the one in the air on a drilling rig from the crown to the ground, I have enjoy you’all and the showing, But you you are as cute than a speckled pup you make me smile, i under stand that congratulations is in order maybe i should hav’ben two stepping instead of getting trashy with the blues i just cant help my self i know D that i don’t really know ya, but i would bet he got a good woman congratulations young lady GOD BLESS baby girl O find the air compressor

I have learned a lot about stuff some people would label “junk” and Mike and Frank are a joy to watch and learn from. I do have a question. I have old toys, cars, trains, tin toys, cast iron toys that my wife’s grandfather bought and collected years ago. Her parents were cleaning their garage out and came across a few boxes and asked if we wanted them, they were going to through it all out. Is it possible to drive to your store in LeClaire and show you what I have and see if you are interested in any of it?? I have pics, tried to send them to you guys about 3 years ago but received a reply the pictures could not be opened.
I hav always wanted to see the shop for myself and didn’t know if you could show up with items to see if there is an interest. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

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Mike & family–
Wishing you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving filled with blessings! Thank you for the non-dairy pumpkin pie recipe which I’ve never seen–looking forward to trying it.
I am cleaning out my parents’/grandparents’ 67-year accumulation of a multitude of things including a collection of antique and vintage cameras and equipment. Please let me know if you might be interested. Happy Picking! Ann

Hi, mike ever since ive started watching your show .. I always say to myself .. How extremely cool would be just to tag along on a wild pick.. Especially on the indian motorcycle. Ones .. Well dude live life .. Bless everyone and everybody that watches your show .. Godbless . rock on .